What if Mussolini didn't move his head

On April 7th British citizen Violet Gibson shot Benito Mussolini. In the OTL he moved his head at just that moment and the bullet hit his nose. What happens if he didn't. Mussolini is now dead at the hands of a (probably insane) daughter of an English nobleman.
 

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You might want to rewrite that post. It's a bit muddled and almost seems like a DBWI (Double-Blind What If).

It would avoid unnecessary posts.

As for the what if: Maybe the Communists make an attempt at power?
 
Have an idea where I might go with it now.

There is now clear successor to Mussolini, and the quadumvirs fall into a power struggle, while the communists and anarchists seize the opportunity to renew radical opposition. There are battles in the streets of Rome and King Victor Emmanuel steps in, appointing Christian Democrat Alcide De Gasperi as caretaker prime minister.

De Gasperi imposes marital law and arrests many leading anarchists, communists and fascists to restore order. With calm restored, new elections are scheduled for 1927 where De Gasperi's Peoples party forms a coalition with the liberals, restoring some form of democracy, albeit unstable.

(More to come but work calls lol)
 
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You might want to rewrite that post. It's a bit muddled and almost seems like a DBWI (Double-Blind What If).

It would avoid unnecessary posts.

As for the what if: Maybe the Communists make an attempt at power?

I've been a member of this site for an embarrassingly long time and it's only now I learn what DBWI stands for...
 
On April 7th British citizen Violet Gibson shot Benito Mussolini. In the OTL he moved his head at just that moment and the bullet hit his nose. What happens if he didn't. Mussolini is now dead at the hands of a (probably insane) daughter of an English nobleman.
Hitler's beliefs that the British nobility were all spies and passing back information to London when on vacations seem to have more validity. Though he was no one major at this point, I imagine others will get the same idea. I have to wonder if the British depend that their subject be handed over to them instead of being tried and likely executed by the Italians. If she survives the mob that apparently tried to lynch her. And as her dad is Irish and her mother a Christian Scientist the British might just claim she is weird or something.
 
At the moment I'm toying with the idea of a far left democracy. Maybe socialists in coalition with more moderate communists.

It's more probable a period of martial law (due to the political confusion and the violence) with the goverment directly nomitated by the King and followed up by a liberal- Popular (Christian Democrati) coalition with support by much of the Socialistis Unitary (moderate led by Matteotti); the communist has been basically broken as a fighting force by now and they still hate too much the moderate socialist.
The army is too much loyal to the king to allow a civil war while some level of political violence, even on par to the Biennio Rosso, at least for a short while, it's very possible.
The end result will be a political disintegration of the fascists and in general a political stability more or less on par with France, maybe just a little better due to the presence of the King.
 
Rather than the disintegration of the PNF I see someone like Italo Balbo or Michele Bianchi would come to power. The other two quadrumvirs are IIRC in Italian Africa during 1926. If Mussolini is assassinated in 1926 and Bianchi comes to power we would see some really interesting changes to Italy, however IOTL he dies in 1930. Probably leaving power to Italo Balbo who by that time was the commander of the air force and IIRC very popular. I'm not sure how Bianchi would govern as a member of the more left wing branch of the PNF. But Balbo would be like a highly competent Mussolini. Balbo was also very anti-Nazi and did not want to ally with Germany.
 
Rather than the disintegration of the PNF I see someone like Italo Balbo or Michele Bianchi would come to power. The other two quadrumvirs are IIRC in Italian Africa during 1926. If Mussolini is assassinated in 1926 and Bianchi comes to power we would see some really interesting changes to Italy, however IOTL he dies in 1930. Probably leaving power to Italo Balbo who by that time was the commander of the air force and IIRC very popular. I'm not sure how Bianchi would govern as a member of the more left wing branch of the PNF. But Balbo would be like a highly competent Mussolini. Balbo was also very anti-Nazi and did not want to ally with Germany.

Highly doubtfoul, the fascist party was a patch of different political ideology and local chiefs many time at each other throats plus the industrialist and landover support to them was all Benny work, without him it will dry almost immediately. Balbo while competent famous and basically being in control of Romagna don't have the polical capacity of Mussolini and his repubblican past really don't make his so appealing to the monarchy.
Not counting that with Mussolini out of the way, D'Annunzio will try again a shot to the fascists leaderships making the sitaution even more chaotic.

at this stage the PNF is not the only political party of Italy and don't have the kind of control that we assume (hell even in 1940 he have less control than the Nazi in Germany or the communist in URSS)
 
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